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Arts & Culture Events This Weekend in Melbourne | Local Happenings

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Our Stories: Living the 60s and 70s

🎭Arts & Culture

🎭 Arts & Culture

Saturday·10:00 AMFree

Our Stories: Living the 60s and 70s

📍Mount Martha·Mount Martha House Community Centre

Past, Present and Future - Melbourne Design Week 2026 - Exhibition

🎭Arts & Culture

🎭 Arts & Culture

Saturday·11:00 AM

Past, Present and Future - Melbourne Design Week 2026 - Exhibition

📍Collingwood·1/123 Cambridge St

Threaded Realities: From Skin to Space

🎭Arts & Culture

🎭 Arts & Culture

Saturday·1:00 PM

Threaded Realities: From Skin to Space

📍Fitzroy·Red Gallery

BLAK: Defining an Australian Design Future

🎭Arts & Culture

🎭 Arts & Culture

Saturday·2:00 PMUnknown

BLAK: Defining an Australian Design Future

📍Melbourne·Lecture Theatre 1 (B117), Melbourne School of Design, Masson Road, The University of

BOOK LAUNCH: One Last Leaf by Patrick Guest & Jess Racklyeft

🎭Arts & Culture

🎭 Arts & Culture

Saturday·2:00 PMUnknown

BOOK LAUNCH: One Last Leaf by Patrick Guest & Jess Racklyeft

📍Brunswick·The Little Bookroom

No-Context Slide Nights

🎭Arts & Culture

🎭 Arts & Culture

Saturday·6:00 PM$25 / $15

No-Context Slide Nights

📍Brunswick·Cross Street Music Hall

Ama Dance Academy – Swetha Padma (The White Lotus)

🎭Arts & Culture

🎭 Arts & Culture

Saturday·6:00 PM

Ama Dance Academy – Swetha Padma (The White Lotus)

📍Moonee Ponds·Clocktower Centre

Queer Movie Night with Our Point 3

🎭Arts & Culture

🎭 Arts & Culture

Saturday·6:30 PMFree

Queer Movie Night with Our Point 3

📍Carlton·Multipurpose Room 2, Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre

WORK HARD / PLAY HARD - Dance Show Presented by the Born to Boogie Dancers

🎭Arts & Culture

🎭 Arts & Culture

Saturday·7:00 PMPaid

WORK HARD / PLAY HARD - Dance Show Presented by the Born to Boogie Dancers

📍Thornbury·The Thornbury Theatre

South Side Festival Writers Showcase – Stories from Our Salon

🎭Arts & Culture

🎭 Arts & Culture

Sunday·1:00 PMFree

South Side Festival Writers Showcase – Stories from Our Salon

📍Frankston·Frankston Library